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Gambitnut is pretty good he beat me in yahoo chess pretty bad.I heard of this thind called indian strategy or something like that do u know anything about that>

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I haven't played chess much lately, but I played a lot as a child. National champion for 3rd grade, 3 time California scholastic champion (high school champion when I was 15) and California Expert champion. I never studied, so my path was definitely a downward one, with the peak at age 5. I was rated 1336 then, #1 for my age except for some abuser in Las Vegas, and people thought I would follow in Jordy Mont-Reynaud and Vinay Bhat's footsteps in being a Bay Area player to set the record for youngest US Master (well, at least there was one guy who was quoted in an article as saying that).

Unfortunately, my progress from that point was very slow, and I didn't break 1500 until age 8. Something finally clicked at age 10, and I shot up. Still, when I was 10, which was when Jordy and Vinay became masters, I was only 1980 French rating, since I lived there at the time. In France at ages 10-11, I played on the Le Rouret city team for both scholastic (board 1 in division 1) and adult (board 2 in Division 4). When I returned to the US at age 11, I stopped playing at all seriously, only a couple of tournaments a year. One nice thing about being underrated in the US was that I won $3112 in the North American Open A section. I did play a lot of bullet and some blitz on the Internet Chess Club, however. The only thing that got me back into it a little was playing on my high school team, slthough it wasn't against very strong competition mostly. When I was in 11th grade, we went to the High School State Championship and, though out of practice, I managed to win, and our team took 1st as well, the other three boards only being about 1600-1700. Somewhat inspired, I went with a couple of my teammates to the Calchess state (class) championships and managed to win the expert section.

That's been my last tournament however, and my US rating ended at about 2050, since I hadn't played enough to catch up from all the progress I made in France and since then. I feel I am/was about 2200 strength (2256 performance rating in my last tournament, for whatever a 6 game sample dize is worth). Even my ICC account has been expired for about 6 months, and I didn't play really at all on it for a year or so before. Actually, all of the Bay Area prodigies have quit. Vinay, who was also at Berkeley and made 2550, stopped for a while, had a briefly unsucesseful comeback and hasn't been back. Jordy never really got any better after setting the record at age 10, and has barely played since 13 or 14.


"Indian strategy" doesn't really mean anything, but maybe you are referring to various openings black can play against 1. d4. The King's Indian is one of the most popular black queen-pawn openings, being very dynamic and giving black attacking chances, and there is also the Queen's Indian, the Nimzo-Indian and the Bogo-Indian.

Diophantos

Didn't realize there were any other chessplayers on BBB.net. Though I don't know if I can really call myself one at this point. I had not really played at all before high school, then I got into it for a couple of years and got up to around 1350 playing in a few local tournaments. Haven't really played much but random blitz games since though. Probably forgot how to play an actual long game.

Good to see other people who play, at any rate.

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Yeah, my USCF rating stopped somewhere absurd, like in the 1200s, but I like to play and tried to study the book. I don't see all the angles, by any means, but I can hold my own sometimes with the guys that used to play in Rittenhouse Square in Philly. Those guys rate anywhere between 1400-1950.

But I don't play competitively. I only have two or three real openings on White (all out of the Queen's Gambit, although I can open out of e4 and play it by ear) and only two defenses (both Sicilian, one being the Sicilian closed nc3, one being the Najdorf). Usually I try to fianchetto the bishop and then play the center. And then lose.

My style is to play off the center, but unlike most good chess players, my mind is not on trying to shape the end game but rather just to be amateurish and overaggressive, regardless of my position. I guess the fun in playing chess for me is those cool, unconventional, exclamation mark moves in the middle game. Attrition, though it's the right and patient way to play, has never been in my game. Thus, my low rating.

I'm up for a game against anyone who wants one. No one has visited this thread for months now, but maybe someone will at some point.

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For anyone here who possibly plays online, I play on FICS (Free Internet Chess Server: www.freechess.org) when I have the time. Handle is diophantos, just like here. Would be cool to play some BBB people.

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E.Ville Von Love

wow you guys sound really good. i know im not even close. i havent played in quite a while though.

i was arguably the best in my middle school(even beat the teachers(and won the school tourney)) and ive yet to lose to anyone at my highschool but like i said i havent played in a while. and i dont/have never studied. i dont know anything but the pieces names. no defensive or offensive strategies... nothing. so i feel really crappy compared to you guys.

oh and regards to some chess history could anyone tell me about bobby fischer. his story sounds really interesting.

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gambitnut

I don't check this forum often enough. Bobby Fischer, where to start? What do you want to know about him?

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E.Ville Von Love

i want to know basically everything. more specifically how he started out and why some consider him the best chess player ever. was he a prodigy or something? as you can tell i know little to nothing about him. just his name and some lore. appearently he disapeared for a little...

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